16 of History's Most Rebellious Women

I chose this photo essay for today because I needed something to counteract how I felt after reading this story. How can men be so… so… inhuman? How can parents fail so fully in their most important tasks? My girls and I talk so frequently about personal safety, personal responsibility… how the choices they do or don’t make can affect their well-being and safety. The classic example when I speak to my girls – of course date rape is wrong, there is no circumstance in which rape is right or acceptable, however you bear a certain degree of responsibility for your safety via the choices you make. Is it smart and conducive to your safety to get drunk or high enough not to be in control of yourself in public? Is it smart to put yourself in the position of being alone and vulnerable in an isolated place with someone you don’t know well enough to trust? What makes a person trustworthy? We talk about all of these things and more because it is my responsibility to provide them with the tools and skills they need to move through this world safely. The above photo essay reminds me that women can be inhuman, too, even as other women work against repression and violence. That the question is not “How can men be so inhuman?” but rather “How can some people be so inhuman?”